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Prosecutor Takes Control Of Englewood Police Department
Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella announced Thursday that he’s assuming full control of the Englewood Police Department beginning Friday. “The present action under which the Prosecutor’s Office will assume full direction and control of the police department is occasioned by the unanticipated retirement of Englewood Chief of Police Lawrence Suffern on April 1,” Musella said in a statement. Musella thanked Suffern “for his service to the residents of Englewood for more than 30 years, and I wish him good health and all the best in his retirement. “I also commend the men and women of the E…
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Englewood Police Chief Lawrence Suffern Retires
Englewood Police Chief Lawrence Suffern retired on Wednesday. Suffern, who’d been on vacation and was due to return Wednesday, was Bergen County's only Black police chief. He retired effective Thursday, city officials announced in a release. “Best chief ever to have served our great city,” Mayor Michael Wildes said following the announcement. “Respected in the county and serving since he was 18 years old for the last 33 years.” "What a sad day in Englewood this is!" wrote Rasheed J. Goins. "Thank you for your leadership and serving our community with such grace for all these yea…
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Bergen Prosecutor Takes Control Of Troubled Englewood PD's Internal Affairs Unit
The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office has assumed control of the troubled Englewood Police Department’s Internal Affairs Unit from Chief Lawrence Suffern for at least the next six months amid accusations that he singled out officers for punishment by denying them extra-work opportunities. A six-month investigation into the department’s internal affairs operation made the move necessary, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella and Englewood City Manager Sonia Alves-Viveiros said in a joint statement Wednesday. Both signed a memorandum of agreement placing a full-time monitor from Musella’s off…
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Englewood PD: Illegal Nightclub Had 200 Guests, Drugs, Booze, COVID Violations
Police said they found 200 or so partiers – few wearing masks or social distancing – along with drugs, alcohol and disabled fire alarms during a pre-dawn raid of a rented space above a Domino's in Englewood. Criminal charges and summonses for COVID offenses and building violations were pending after the raid shortly before 4 a.m. Sunday at the space rented by multi-entertainment company Feenx Enterprises above the Domino's on West Palisade Avenue. Officers responding to a noise and disturbance complaint found the throng of attendees, “most not wearing masks or practicing social distancing,”…
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COVID Mask Clash: Tech Darling Charged With Bashing Englewood Officer In Face With Radio
A celebrated startup business advisor with an escalating history of violence smashed an Englewood police officer in the face with his own radio after causing a commotion at a local Starbucks when he refused to wear a COVID mask, authorities said. Frank Denbow, 35, eventually was subdued with help from a good Samaritan, police said. The attack, captured on video, came just weeks after authorities said Denbow kicked a police officer in Wyoming in the chest and sprayed him with a carbonated energy drink. An Englewood native, Denbow has been featured on various online business shows and tech …
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? Englewood Police Investigate Alleged Assault At Protest March
Englewood police investigating an alleged assault during a protest march asked the public for video from the incident. Officers directing traffic during the “No Justice, No Peace” march up East Palisade Avenue last Friday were alerted to a man down in the street. The 51-year-old victim, who was bleeding from the lip, said he got into a tussle with a male demonstrator carrying a megaphone, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. The man was taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center after being treated at the scene, the deputy chief said. No arrests were immediately made. The march…
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Victim Clinging To Life, Assailant Sought In Stabbing Outside Englewood Church
A man was hospitalized with a life-threatening stab wound and his assailant was being sought following a fight Sunday afternoon outside an Englewood church. Officers who responded to at Mt. Cavalry Baptist Church on West Demarest Avenue applied a tourniquet before an ambulance took the victim, 31, to Hackensack University Medical Center shortly before 3 p.m., Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. The victim may have been attending a social event when a fight broke out and he was stabbed, Halstead said. His assailant remained at large and may have fled the scene in a dark-colored vehic…
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? Hidden Camera Shows Burglary Trio Ransacking Englewood Home
A surveillance camera captured video of three burglars ransacking an Englewood home, said police who asked the public's help finding those responsible. Police responding to a 9:22 p.m. burglar alarm Friday in the 100 block of Chestnut Street found a rear kitchen door forced open, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. Backups helped canvass the area with negative results, Halstead said. The homeowner, who was away, gave detectives surveillance footage showing the intruders "running around the interior of the residence," he said. A list of missing items was being compiled, the deputy …
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Woman, 57, Dog Killed In Englewood Fire
A 57-year-old Englewood woman and her dog were killed in a Monday night fire apparently ignited by a cigarette, authorities said. A Grove Street resident who’d been out for the evening called 911 after smelling and then seeing smoke coming from a detached garage apartment where Clare Mackin lived around 10 p.m., Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said Tuesday. Firefighters doused the two-alarm blaze and found the body of the victim, who “apparently succumbed to the intense heat and was unable to exit the structure,” Halstead said. Also killed was her dog, responders said. No other injur…
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: Trees Fall On Englewood House With Heart Attack Victim Inside
Two trees fell on an Englewood home during Tuesday afternoon's storm, blocking responders' path to a resident who'd just suffered a heart attack, authorities said. Englewood Police Officer Matthew Depetro hopped a railing to get inside the East Linden Avenue carriage house, where he found the unconscious 50-year-old victim shortly before 2:30 p.m., Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. The officer immediately began manual rescue breaths, Halstead said. Following Depetro moments later were city firefighters, who used a chain saw to remove what branches they could from a tree that was l…
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Englewood PD: Report Of Attempted Kidnapping 'Exaggerated'
An Englewood citizen’s claim that a man tried luring her daughter into his vehicle was exaggerated, police said. "It appears at this point that an 84-year-old male offered an 16-year-old female a ride in his vehicle," Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead told Daily Voice early Friday. "There was no kidnap attempt." "He asked her if she wanted a ride and she told him to get lost and he did," the deputy chief said. "The reports are exaggerated. "There is no cause for alarm or threat to the public." The mother on Wednesday night posted a photo on Facebook of a man in a baseball cap dri…
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: Englewood Police Charge 12 Students In Recorded High School Brawl
A dozen students at Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood were being charged by police for a brawl earlier this week, authorities said. School officials also planned suspensions for them of five to 10 days, they said. Making the task easier for police and school officials is a video of Tuesday’s melee (posted above). Six adults students are being charged with failing to disperse, Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said Thursday. Five underage students are receiving delinquency complaints for the same offense, he said. The student accused of starting the braw;, also a minor, was receivi…
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Student, 16, Removed From Prestigious Englewood School For Anti-Black, Anti-Semitic Graffiti
UPDATE: Officials at Dwight-Englewood Upper School confirmed Friday that a 16-year-old student was removed after they determined that he was responsible for anti-black and anti-Semitic graffiti found scrawled on several restroom stalls across the campus. Head of School Dr. Rodney V. De Jarnett issued a statement earlier that a student was "under investigation and no longer at the school," said Liz Tausner, the schools' director of communications. The 11th-grader has denied involvement, according to sources familiar with the incident. A police investigation was continuing and delinquency co…
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